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Feb 23, 2012
NASA Rocket Carrying Instruments Built at UNH Launched Into Aurora
With the full sky shimmering in green aurora on Feb. 18, 2012, a team of scientists, including space physicist Marc Lessard and graduate students from UNH’s Space Science Center, launched an instrument-laden, two-stage sounding rocket from the Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska. The precision measurements from the rocket’s instruments will shed new light on the physical processes that... Read morePosted in: Engineering & Physical Sciences, Space Science, Research Development & Communications, Research Spotlight
Tags: 2012, Alfvén waves, aurora, electromagnetic energy, EOS, Institute for the Study of Earth-Oceans-and Space, ionosphere, Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Alfvén resonator mission, Marc Lessard, MICA, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, northern lights, Space Science Center, sun-Earth connection